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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Ditches Meeting With Visiting Republicans
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declined to meet with a Republican congressional delegation only a week after meeting with a Democratic group on a visit to Israel. Abbas dropped out of a scheduled meeting in Ramallah with the delegation of 31 Republicans, according to Jewish Insider, leaving the lawmakers to meet with…
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The Schmooze Armie Hammer: Forget Equinox And SoulCycle, Marvel Entertainment Chair Donates To Trump, Too
Somehow Armie Hammer, despite his square jaw and absurdly heroic given name, is not in any of the Marvel films. This seems like an oversight, given the existence of a hammer-happy member of The Avengers and a separate character whose last name is also Hammer. But the “Call Me By Your Name” star has said…
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Opinion Epstein’s Case Deserves An Investigation, Not Conspiracy Theories
When the news that Jeffrey Epstein had died of suicide arrived on Saturday morning, it was not a question of whether conspiracy theories would quickly take hold, but of which ones. Epstein, the disgraced financier accused of sex trafficking underage girls, was connected to an ungodly number of elite circles: Wall Street, highly-ranked academic institutions,…
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Fast Forward Stephen Ross Was Hesitant To Host Trump Fundraiser After Backlash – But It’s Happening Anyway
New York real estate developer Stephen Ross had second thoughts about his plans to host a fundraiser Friday for President Trump at his Southampton mansion, Axios reported. Ross, who is Jewish, chairs a company that owns fitness brands Equinox and SoulCycle. When news of the fundraiser came out, customers threatened to cancel their memberships, despite…
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The Schmooze The Owner Of Soul Cycle And Equinox Is Hosting A Huge Trump Fundraiser
“Find your soul.” “You did not wake up to be mediocre.” “I am…enough.” Such are the phrases you will hear if you enter a SoulCycle, the wildly popular fitness company that offers group stationary-biking classes and mood-lit spirituality for a steep fee. (A single class at a Manhattan SoulCycle costs $36, which is 2.5 times…
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Opinion It’s Time To Call Trump And His Team By Their True Name: Idolators.
On July 25th, Attorney General William Barr directed the federal Bureau of Prisons to reinstate the death penalty. The next day, former White House counsel and witness in Nixon’s impeachment trial John Dean posted a tweet critical of Barr. He wrote that Barr must be an “Old Testament kind of guy” to do such a…
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Fast Forward Pelosi To Trump: Speak To Your ‘Slumlord’ Son-In-Law About Baltimore’s Rats
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested President Trump take his questions about supposed infestation in her hometown of Baltimore to his “slumlord” son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Pelosi was asked Thursday about the president’s recent comments, in which he called Baltimore, represented in part by House Oversight Committee chair Elijah Cummings, a “rodent infested mess” where “no human”…
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Fast Forward Trump Commutes Sentence Of Orthodox Drug Dealer Whose Wife Has Stage 4 Cancer
(JTA) — President Trump commuted the sentence of an Israeli-born haredi Orthodox man in jail on first-time drug charges. The commutation of the 20-year prison sentence of Ronen Nahmani was announced by the White House on Monday. Nahmani was convicted in 2015 of distributing synthetic marijuana, known as Spice and K2, obtained from China. He received…
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